Ice pack receptacle



Feb. 21, 1933. D. STERN 1,898,320

ICE PACK RECEPTACLE Filed Sept. 7, 1929 Patented Feb. 21, 1933 UNITED STATES DAVID STERN, or noncnns'rnn, MASSACHUSETTS ICE PACK RECEITAGLE' J Application filed September 7, 1929. Serial No. 390,994.

In the packing of certain products where ice or other cooling medium is to be used, as in a circular tub or bucket, there has been much difficulty in keeping the container 5 tight and to prevent it from coming open in transit. For example, in the shipment of fresh fish, especially where dressed fish, fillets or cuts are packed in ice, it is of the utmost importance to keep the fish in a tightly closed container and avoid any possibility of its coming open in transit.

My invention contemplates a container adapted to pack in a round tub or the like, and one of simple construction and positive cover lock.

In the drawing I have shown such a receptacle which is of cylindrical form and adapted to be packed in an ice tub with maximum economy.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is an elevation of such a container.

Fig. 2 a top planview of the cover.

Fig. 3 a view of the receptacle with cover removed.

Fig. 4 a fragment in vertical section, and

Fig. 5 a lug member.

The receptacle 1 is of cylindrical shape with an inset bottom 2 provided with a depending flange 3 seamed to the lower edge of the container wall.

Adjacent its top the receptacle wall 1 is channelled as at 5 and into this is formed the butt 6 of a deformable or bendable tab 6 and riveted as at 7.

The cover 8 has a depending flange 8 out-turned as at 8 and contactable with the bead 5. The cover is slotted as at 9 to receive the lugs 6 which may be bent over as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4 to hold the cover tight against dislodgment.

These packs are usually single use packs and the receptacles not returned to the shipper. To add utility to such packs and make a convenient pail for the retailer I provide an aperture 10 in the tab 6 in which a bail can be hooked. This lies below the slot 9 and does not weaken the tab at the bending point. If the tab breaks at that point the tab stub is still available as a bail stub.

My structure is simple and efiicient. It

can be produced at low cost and in the form shown has its several detailed advantages.

While I have described and illustrated my invention in its adaptation to a container of cylindrical shape, it will be understood that this treatment is purely illustrative and in no way limiting and that the principles apply to any shape of container, whether cylindrical, oval, square, oblong or otherwise.

With the square or oblong container, as with the cylindrical, the rolled bead or channel 5 provides a definite bearing for the cover edge 8 efiective to assist in holding the cover against accidental displacement from the container.

Regardless of the container shape, however, it will be noted that the head 5 also results in positioning that portion of the container above the bead in slightly offset rela- 1 tion to the main body of the container, as appears 1n Figs. 1 and 4, so that the cover fits thereover with a close friction fit. The bead also serves as a convenient anchorage interiorly of the container for the lugs 6.

It will also be noted that the upper edge of the container 1 is rolled inwardly upon itself as indicated at 1 (Fig. 4) and that such lnwardly rolled edge or bead 1 constitutes a support and bearing internally of the contamer for the lugs 6, stiffening said lugs against breakage particularly during the act of bending them outwardly over the cover member as shown in dotted lines in said figure.

In the case of a square or oblong container such inwardly rolled edge or head l is formed on each of the four walls of the contamer in such way as to abut each other when the blank is bent to container shape 55 and form a continuous edging or bead which acts not only to stiffen the lugs 6 but to brace and stiffen the container itself at its upper edge.

What I therefore claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A shipping receptacle comprising a container, a pair of opposed lugs fastened to the interior surface of the container wall, a top having tab receiving slots, and a bail hole in said lugs above the container edges, and below said slots.

2. A shipping receptacle comprising a container, a pair of opposed lugs fastened to a 5 container wall, a top having lug receiving slots, said lugs being adapted to be turned outwardly and downwardly to hold said top on said container and a bail hole in said lugs in the portion between the top of the container edges and below the portion which passes through said slot.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

DAVID STERN. 

